Bottle-capping apparatus



L. A. BRIGEL.

BOTTLE GAPPING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED Aumzs. 1920.

Patented Sept. 26, i922.

UNTE STATES LEO A. IBR-IGEL, OF CHEVOT, OHIO.

BOTTLE-CAPPING A?PARATUS.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that Luo A. BRIGEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cheviot, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Bottle-Capping Apparatus, of which the ,following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements 1n bottle capping apparatus. One of its objects is to provide an improved adjustable bottle capping apparatus. Another object is to provide improved clamping means to clamp the capping head to its adjusted positions. Another object is to provide a capping apparatus in which the capping plunger has a greater range of movement to a single setting of the head. Another object 1s to provide improved means to 'center the bottles. Another obj ect is to provide improved means to hold the capper head and bottle in alignment. My invention also comprises certain details of form combination and arrangement all of which will be fully .set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation partly in central vertical section, illustrating my improved apparatus.

Fig. 2, is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 3, is a sectional detail on line 3-3 of Fig. l.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the preferred embodiment of my invention in which 14 represents the base and 15 a vertical cylindrical standard rigidly attached to said base, as for instance by a drive fit in a recess 16 in the base and then heading over the lower end of the standard at 17. The base is adapted to be rigidly fastened to a bench or similar support by means of screws 18. The standard 15 has a key-way 19 cut along one side for a considerable distance. A head 2O is bored at 21 and 22 and further recessed at 24 to permit the passage of the standard endwise through the head and the head is adjustable vertically upon the standard and adapted to be clamped rigidly thereto at different positions by means of a cam 25 journaled upon a pin 26, to the ears 27.

The face of the cam travels in and engages the key-way to both prevent the head 2O moving rotatably relative to the standard and to lock the head rigidly to the standard at any desired height. A hand lever 28 serves to actuate the cam 25 to lock or re- Application filed. August 23, 1920. Serial No. 405,470.

lease the head 20. It is designed in locking the head 20 to the standard that the standard shall lit rather closely in bored sections 21 and 22 and loosely in thc recessed section 24 and that the action of the cam 25 near the center of the recessed section will serve to slightly spring the standard opposite the cam and thus cant the snugly litting bored sections of the head to more firmly lock the head to the standard with a relatively light pressure, on the lever 28, than would be otherwise possible.

A handv lever 29 is pivotally attached to ears 30 on the head 20 by means of a pin 31, passing through an elongated opening 32 in the end of the hand lever. rfhe hand lever 29 has a recess to receive one end of a plunger 33, which plunger is pivotally attached to said hand lever by a pin 34. The plunger 33 is movable vertically in a recess 35 bored in the head 20, and which the plunger closely fits. At the lower end of the plunger below the head 20 is a bottle capping head of tool 36 adapted to be forced down upon a cap seated over the mouth of a bottleand to clinch the capto the bottle and seal up the contents of the bottle. One object is to secure as long a range of vertical movement as is conveniently attainable for the plunger to provide for capping as wide a range of bottles as possible at one adjustment of the head.

I preferably provide a self-centering support 37 for the lower end of the bottle comprising a plurality of upwardly and outwardly inclined arms on which the bottom of the bottle rests and finds its own center. The support 37 may be pivotally and detachably mounted by means of a cylindrical stud 28 upon the base 14 if desired, or may be rigidly attached to the base, or if desired may be replaced with a fiat yielding pad.

In practice the head 2O is adjusted on the standard '15 to the desired height and clamped by the hand lever` 28. A bottleto be capped is placed upon the support 37, and its mouth should come to a position slightly below the head 36. A cap is placed over the mouth of the bottle and hand lever 29 is actuated to force the head 36 down upon the cap and clinch the cap to the mouth of the bottle and thereby seal its contents. After the bottle has been sealed the hand lever 29 is lifted until a spring actuated plunger 39 engages an annular recess 40 in the 'face of the plunger 33 to hold the head p K 323, and hand lover 29 in the raised position lig. lj until another bottle is in position to be capped.

lf :im thus enabled to provide a relatively inexpensive bottle capping; z'ipparatus in which the head is adjustabletlnouglia wide range, and is held against movement rotatahly and firinly looked to the standard, and in which the capping lever and plunger have a wide range ot moven/ient, and when not in use are held in ele ated position ready to he actuated.

"Elie apparatus herein illustrated and de soril'led is capable ott considerable 1nodilieation without departing iioin the principio of in); invention.

lvl/That l elaiin is;

l. bottle Cappel' ooniprising a hase, a cylindrical standard having a key Way, a head adjustable upon said standard to and troni said base, a Cain lever to engage the key-Way in said standard to loel said head to the standard and also to prevent the head weones moving rotatably relative to said standard, a plunger mounted to reciprocate in a guide on said head and provided With a capping tool, and a level' pivotall),7 connected to said head to aetuate said plunger.

it bottle eapper comprising a base, a cylindrical standard rigidly mounted upon said base and provided with a key-Way, a head adjustable longitudinally of said standard, a rain lever pivotally mounted upon said head and engaging said key-Way to pre vent rotary movement ot said head in any normal position of adjustment and to lock said head to said standard, a plunger mounted in a guide recess in said head and provided with a capping` tool, a hand lever to aetuate said plunger, and ineans to yieldingly retain said plunger and actuating lever in raised position when idle.

ln testimony whereof l have afizied iny signature.

LE@ A. Bh-GEL. 

